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Title: 25th Infantry Division Guard and Dog on Perimeter Duty
Description: 25th Infantry Division guard and dog on perimeter duty, 1967. Photo by Dick Swanson.
Subjects: soldiers, infantrymen, infantries, guards, dogs
Local Identifier: 16-4745

Title: Calvin Dunckle At The Airborne Ranger Building
Description: Calvin Dunckle with Airborne Ranger, 75th Infantry sign and building, 1970. Passed on.Photo by David Weeks II.
Subjects: Vietnam War, soldiers, military vehicles, Rangers, infantries, military buildings
Local Identifier: 16-3432

Title: 14th Infantry Regiment Soldier Rests During a Mission
Description: 14th Infantry Regiment soldier rests during a mission south of Ho Bo Woods, 1967.
Subjects: soldiers, infantrymen, infantries
Local Identifier: 16-2857

Title: Sergeant Tom Birnie (right), with Unidentified Soldier on Patrol.
Description: Sergeant Tom Birnie (right), Platoon Sergeant of 4 Platoon, D Company, 2RAR and an unidentified soldier on patrol during Operation Coburg, Bien Hoa, January 1968. Sgt Birnie served in Vietnam for a second time with 2 RAR in 1970-71 and was accidentally shot by a sentry while re-entering his own platoon area after a reconnaissance patrol. He died of his wounds at 1 Australian Field Hospital on 25 March 1971.
Subjects: sergeant, patrol, Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), Australian Army, infantries, battalions
Local Identifier: 16-4408

Title: A Member of "L" Company During Operation "Bushmaster"
Description: During Operation "Bushmaster," a member of Company "L", (Ranger), 75th Infantry, wearing camouflage makeup sits alone with his thoughts while waiting to participate in an assault mission against North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces in Vietnam in August of 1971.
Subjects: Vietnam War, soldiers, Rangers, infantries, battles, camouflage
Local Identifier: 16-3035

Title: 25th Infantry Division Camp Frenzell
Description: Vietnam in 1971 at Camp Frenzell - Jones of the 25th Infantry Division, 3rd Battalion 22nd Infantry, Recon. Company E. Ben Norman directly under the guy's right hand that is holding the flag, 4 rows up 8th man from the right. Sniper Mario Vasquez is the 6th man from the right on the last row. Photo by Ben Norman.
Subjects: Vietnam War, photographs, group portraits, infantries, troops, soldiers, military camps
Local Identifier: 16-2954

Title: Fire Support Base "Fuller"
Description: Don Blanchette at Fire Support Base, Fuller - Jan 1970. In 1st Platoon "The Pioneers," 1st Battalions, 11th Inf. Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th Inf. Div. (mech). Quang Tri Province, RVN. Photo repaired by Dan Fox
Subjects: Vietnam, brigades, Fire Support Bases (FSB), military bases, platoons, infantries, infantrymen, Vietnam War, soldiers, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
Local Identifier: 16-2588

Title: Soldier Cools Off in a Stream in the Mekong Delta Whilst Cleaning His Weapon
Description: A U.S. 9th Infantry Division soldier of the 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry, takes advantage of a stream in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam to cool off while cleaning his weapon in June 1969 during the Vietnam War.
Subjects: soldiers, weapons, guns, infantrymen, infantries, deltas, rivers
Local Identifier: 16-2841

Title: 4RAR and Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Flags Lowered For The Last Time
Description: In November 1971, the Australian 4RAR and Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment flags at Nui Dat base were lowered for the last time by New Zealand Regimental Policeman Private Tai Whatu and Australian Regimental Policeman Private John Skennar of Grafton, NSW. The flags marking five years occupancy of the base by Australian and New Zealand forces were lowered by a small group of 4RAR/NZ (Anzac) Battalion comprising 4RAR and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. Vietnamisation - pulling out: The Tet Offensive of February 1968 is regarded as a turning point in the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong mounted a series of attacks on major centers throughout South Vietnam. Although the Viet Cong suffered enormous losses, it was a psychological and propaganda victory for them. Surprised at the Viet Cong’s ability to orchestrate such major attacks across the country, including an assault on the American embassy, many in the United States began to disbelieve assurances that the war was being won. The fallout from Tet also led the United States President, Lyndon Johnson, to announce that he would not seek re-election. He was succeeded by Richard Nixon who won office in November 1968. In 1969 Nixon announced that the withdrawal of American troops was a priority. In a policy known as ‘Vietnamisation’ the number of United States combat troops was gradually reduced and their places were taken by soldiers in an expanded South Vietnamese army. But the United States continued to provide assistance by supplying weapons, further training for the South Vietnamese army, and naval and aerial support for South Vietnamese soldiers on operations. Tet had had its effect. In May 1968, just 4 months later, peace talks attended by representatives of North and South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and the United States, opened in Paris. Australia’s Government, having followed the United States lead in Vietnam, was now in the position of having to also enunciate a strategy for withdrawal. In April 1970 the Australian Prime Minister, John Gorton, announced that the 8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR) would not be replaced when its tour of Vietnam ended in November. This followed a United States Government announcement that more than 180,000 Americans would be withdrawn and, more importantly, that a complete American withdrawal would follow. Vietnamisation meant that the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam (ARVN) would double in size, necessitating additional military trainers and resulting in an expanded role for the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) whose numbers increased in the final phase of the war. However, the ARVN was ill-equipped and unable to match the North Vietnamese Army in the field. Early in 1971 Australia’s Joint Intelligence Organisation, reporting on the progress of Vietnamisation, described the ARVN as ‘uneven in quality’ and suffering from poor leadership. Australian military officials in Phuoc Tuy and Saigon reported that the local ARVN would meet significant difficulties once the Australian Task Force’s battalions left. To add to the gloomy outlook, few South Vietnamese had any confidence in their own government which was regarded as corrupt and incompetent. The biggest mistake was the failure to go about a fair and evenly distributed approach of boosting the South Vietnamese Army in the early stages, giving them a fair allocation of helicopters and artillery and the like, and above all else comprehensive training. Subsequently, after the Tet Offensive in 1968 and after President Nixon replaced President Johnson in early 1969, the catch-cry went up that ‘Vietnamisation would turn things around’ and a huge effort was attempted, finally, to boost the South Vietnamese Army.
Subjects: infantries, flags, military bases, Vietnam War, Royal Australian Regiment (RAR)
Local Identifier: 16-4627

Title: Ambush Academy, 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi
Description: Me at Ambush Academy - 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi — Photo and comment by Richard Roland Bradley, with Sgt Jim Diel.
Subjects: Vietnam War, ambush, academies, soldiers, military training camps, infantrymen, infantries, Vietnam
Local Identifier: 16-2572

Title: David Raygor in Quang Tri
Description: David Raygor in Quang Tri, Vietnam. 1968. 1/5 infantry (mech). "It was a scary place when you land in Dong Ha and they tell you to jump off the plane because they weren't going to stop and they took off again." -Vietnam Veteran. Photo by David Raygor.
Subjects: Vietnam War, soldiers, military camps, infantries
Local Identifier: 16-3409

Title: Camp Rainier, Army Base in Dau Tieng, Vietnam
Description: "Place was probably as you remembered it.....a billion rubber trees, the old plantation house and the big above ground pool. [Viet Cong] blew the shit outa the place in mid 69." Photo and comments by Howard Swede Ware
Subjects: Army, infantries, army bases, battles, Vietnam, Vietnam War, military bases, military buildings
Local Identifier: 16-3697

Title: Combat Ration Packs and Ammunition Laid Out for 5RAR Infantrymen
Description: ‘C’ packs and ammunition laid out ready for 5RAR infantrymen about to begin an operation, 1970. Photo by Carole Talty. Vietnam Veteran comments: "We had a mixture of Australian and American C [Combat] rations. We preferred the American for the greater variety… in the Australian packs we would keep the tins. There were two tins. One for morning, one for evening and ‘dog biscuits’ for lunch. A tin of margarine, a roll of toilet paper, which was like greaseproof paper and no bloody good anyway. Box of matches, sachets of sugar, a tube of condensed milk, tea bags… sachets of coffee, a packet of rice and that was it, but we’d keep the two tins, condensed milk, tube of jam. Oh a bar of chocolate. Yeah, keep that. A packet of lollies as well, we’d keep them. Jam, rice, and that was about right. The cereal box and the dog biscuits. Stuff them. Throw that away. Get rid of all the extraneous crap and just keep what you need."
Subjects: Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), infantries, supplies, rations, soldiers
Local Identifier: 16-4577

Title: Change of Command
Description: Change of Command - Company A, 25th Aviation Battalion, 25th Infantry Division - 1977 Wheeler Army Airfield Hawaii — with Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Childers and Major George Anders. Photo by Milt Brown
Subjects: soldiers, battalions, aviation, Change of Command, commanders, commanding officers, airfields, infantries, lieutenants, colonels
Local Identifier: 16-3134

Title: LZ Buff/ Stinson Americal Division
Description: LZ Buff/ Stinson Quang Nhia province Americal Division. Photo by Bobby Rodriguez.
Subjects: Vietnam War, infantries, military bases, aerial views
Local Identifier: 16-3188

Title: Fire Support Base
Description: As the words ‘Fire Support Base’ imply, artillery was central to operations at Coral and Balmoral. Although the guns played a defensive role during North Vietnamese attacks on both bases, their main purpose was to protect infantry patrolling outside the wire. In an indication of the volume of fire provided by the guns, these shells constitute a resupply for 102 Field Battery at Coral.
Subjects: guns, artillery, infantries, shelling (artillery projectiles)
Local Identifier: 16-4413

Title: "No Slack" 2nd Battalion 327th Infantry Sign
Description: "No Slack" 2nd Battalion 327th Infantry sign. Photo by David Wayne
Subjects: Vietnam War, signs, signage, battalions, infantries
Local Identifier: 16-3565

Title: Sniper Ben Norman Rubber Tree Plantation
Description: Vietnam Sniper - George "Ben" Norman in a rubber tree plantation in Vietnam: "I haven't shaved in 3 weeks, had a shower or a change of clothes. I smell so bad the flies won't land on me. Every scratch and mosquito bite is infected and I have ring worm everywhere my ruck sack and clothes rub my body. I have leeches attached to my skin, dysentery and I have had to brush mosquitoes off muddy bomb craters to re-fill my canteens for drinking water. I am truly a "mad dog animal at this point", ready to kill! Before I arrived in Vietnam I weighed between 165-170 lbs... after returning from the field I weighed 138lbs! 25th Infantry Division 1970-1971. Whatever conflict or war you may have served in, the average citizen has no idea what an infantry soldier truly has to endure!!! This is why the infantry brotherhood is so strong because... we know! Photo by Ben Norman.
Subjects: snipers, rubber, plantations, infantrymen, infantries, Vietnam War, soldiers
Local Identifier: 16-2987

Title: 1st Battalion 502d Infantry Yearbook Cover
Description: 1/502 Battalion yearbook cover. Photo by Ruben Yzaguirre, Recon 1/502 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam 1969-70.
Subjects: Vietnam War, battalions, infantries, yearbooks, Airborne Brigade
Local Identifier: 16-3757

Title: Soldier in the 101st Airborne Division
Description: Recon 1/502 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam 1969-70. Photo by Ruben Yzaguirre The 502nd Infantry Regiment (502nd INF), previously titled the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (502nd PIR), is an airborne infantry regiment of the United States Army. The regiment was established shortly after the American entry into World War II, and was assigned as a regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, "The Screaming Eagles", one of the most decorated formations of the U.S. Army. The regiment saw substantial action in the European Theater of World War II and was deactivated in 1945, shortly after the end of the war. Reactivating in a new form in 1956, the 502nd Infantry has served in the Vietnam War, the first Gulf War, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. It was removed from parachute status with the rest of the 101st Airborne Division in 1969, and since 1974, the regiment has been classified as an Air Assault unit. Currently, its 1st and 2nd battalions are active. Both battalions are assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) 2nd Battalion served almost seven years in the Republic of Vietnam. 1st Battalion did five years. Fighting scattered actions under two different brigade headquarters from the Mekong River delta in the south to the DMZ up north, they earned 27 campaign streamers, six American, and eight Vietnamese unit citations between them, including two Presidential Unit Citations earned by 2nd Battalion for An Khe and Dak To. 1/502 fought in the A Shau Valley and the Rescue of Dustoff 65. Three 2nd Battalion soldiers earned the Medal of Honor. Specialist Dale E. Wayrynen, Private First Class Milton A. Lee, and Corporal Frank R. Fratellenico all have Fort Campbell landmarks named for them. In December 1971, after having drawn down in country, the 101st began returning home to Fort Campbell.
Subjects: portraits, studio portraits, infantries, infantrymen, soldiers, Vietnam War, Airborne Brigade, Army, U.S. Military, military uniforms, military deployment, battalions
Local Identifier: 16-3683

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